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Industries To Be Levied To Fund Technical Education
Friday November 13, 2009
The Government is to levy industries to raise money to fund Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the country, Minister of Education, Alex Tetteh-Enyo has said. In addition, the Minister said the World Bank together with DANIDA in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and the Council on Technical Vocational Education...read more
Govt To Wage National Crusade On Productivity
Friday November 13, 2009
The President, John Evans Atta Mills, has announced plans by the government to wage a massive national crusade on productivity to augment the country’s competitiveness to achieve middle income status and thereby, improve the quality of life of the people. He has, therefore, charged the Ministries of Finance and Economic Planning and...read more
UEW To Introduce Master Of Science Programme In Early Childhood Education
Friday November 13, 2009
The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) will introduce Master of Science programme in Early Childhood Education as from the next academic year. The introduction programme is in partnership with the Wheelock College, Boston in the United State of America. Professor Joyce Hope Scott, an Associate Professor in American Studies and...read more
AMA To Confiscate All Stray Animals
Friday November 13, 2009
THE Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) will from today, confiscate all stray animals, a measure to control animal rearing in the metropolis. Subsequently, owners of the animals who fail to report to the AMA after the confiscation, of their animals they will be summoned and prosecuted at the law courts. The animals include dogs, goats,...read more
Extend Products And Services To The Informal Sector
Friday November 13, 2009
Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, on Thursday asked life Insurance Companies to extend their products and services to the informal sector. “Life Insurance cannot have a full impact upon our people if practitioners fail to turn to the informal sector which constitutes more than 60 per cent of our productive...read more
AN AGE IN WHICH NOTHING CAN BE FORGIVEN
Wednesday November 11, 2009
I’ve just become aware of a book which discusses one of the curses of our age: our inability, because of the Internet, to prevent people from reading things written about us which are not true. The book is entitled “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”. It is by a man called Viktor Mayer-Schönberger...read more
